Palin for Prez? Alaska gov to step down, cash in, and misinform public on energy and climate

That’s conservative pundit Bill Kristol, calling into Fox News after the only governor who can see Russia when she stands on a really, really tall building announced she is quitting her job in a few weeks.

“Talking to people who are very close to Sarah Palin, I have been told that she has told her supporters that she is out of politics, period. She is fed up with politics. She doesn’t like her life. She feels like she has to raise her family. She’s sick of the commute from Wasilla to the capital and she really does not want to run for higher office. This is not the case where she is stepping down in order to figure the way for a presidential run. In fact, she has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012.”

On the other hand,

Palin political adviser Fred Malek said that Palin isn’t ruling out a future run for office, and he expects her to help other Republicans raise money. “She’s not going to go hide in a cave,” Malek said in a telephone interview. “She’ll continue to be a major friend and force for Republican figures in this country.”

What do you think the future holds in store for the thrilla from Wasilla — and the GOP in general in 2012?

If she was running for president, I think she’d stick around til the end of her term in 2010, not quit in the middle of it. Quitting looks terrible and probably will be the end of her public political future, honestly. I suspect she’s about to cash in big time.

Sarah’s Balin… Governor was just getting to be too much like work. Perhaps she will become the spokesperson for the Global Warming Deniers and a concerted effort to stop any meaningful progress thus filling her coffers from the likes of EXXON etc.

If Palin is going to make a serious attempt on the whitehouse in 2012, she is going to need to learn to become George Bush. In order to keep the big tent of the Republican party together she needs to learn how to talk to the base in code, and how to talk to the fiscal conservatives and moneyed interests in the Republican party without scaring them off. Leaving Alaska for Washington, DC is probably part of her continuing political education.

And I don’t think that stepping down as Governor is politically suicidal. Nobody is going to care that she bailed on Alaska.

There are rumors.
“The Brad Blog is reporting that Alaskan reporter, Shannyn Moore, is now saying that federal indictments in the “iceberg scandal” may soon break “concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building material for Palin’s home…””
(Daily Kos link)

“she really does not want to run for higher office.” You know Andrea Mitchell has it wrong if she said this, which is clearly bogus.

It’s hard to know which iceberg is going to since the SSPalin – the fake pregnancy, the emails that now must be released, the house that the First Dud’s buddies built, the shady life of Sarah the Beauty Queen before she married and had a baby 8 months later…

I’m just so, so sad. I hope Sarah stays with us for a long time because she provides endless comic entertainment. Her ludicrous escapades are a marvelous distraction from the ravages of climate change. Great Sarah watchdog websites: the original mudflats.net, whose server was completely swamped all day yesterday, palingates dot blogspot dot com, theimmoralmajority dot blogspot dot com, and they all have links to others.

An entire cottage industry of pajama clad bloggers with unrivaled snark is now imperiled – let’s hope the iceberg keeps floating for a while and doesn’t sink the SSPalin quite yet!

I think cashing in is a likely reason. She faces a lot of legal bills and the recent fundraiser to pay for them was a bust. “Advancing the cause” would be fundraisers for other Republican candidates and a speaking tour for her. Her political career has always been all about her and I think that this is no different. If she’s planning a 2012 run, though, she just handed her primary opponents a big box of ammo. Skipping out on an obligation doesn’t resonate with the “responsibility” crowd.

And I don’t think that stepping down as Governor is politically suicidal. Nobody is going to care that she bailed on Alaska.

then

“64% of GOP voters say Palin is their top choice for 2012, 100% of Democrats agree.

If you can’t beat a candidate that quit in the middle of her term because some heat was turned up, then you have no business in the business and time to look for other work.

IMHO she’s got trouble coming over the horizon. What a dim-bulb.

But at least we have a new indicator: She will be the perfect indicator to identify the ~10-15% who will take her as the new political savior, and someone bringing her up as wonderful can be immediately ignored.

All we really know now is that she’s a quitter and she doesn’t take her job seriously. No way to know if she is running for president, but she’s the ideal choice to represent the party that broke the world.

another impulsive Sara decision… her sister’s account of her getting married was hilarious… wheeling a couple of people out of a nearby old folks home to be witnesses.
Consider the possibility that this is not a grown woman. I do expect she’ll make buckets of $$ for not too much work. A book and talking head for FauxNews, she’s great with a teleprompter.

Move over, Rush Limbaugh. Palin will have a following on Fox News like no other female. Her thinking will become well known, she will have influence like O’Riley and Hannity. She will ZOOOOOM!
I’m not a fan but I know a superstar when I see one.

What was that rambling load of accusations about unnamed persons engaged in personal attacks on her person??? WHAT? I watched it twice just to make sure I really didn’t understand. She must now hold the record for the most incoherent speeches/statements given by a single politiclan Can’t wait to see what SNL does with this gem! I’m leaning toward a scandel is about to break she seems more scattered than she normally does. (which is saying something)

I can only hope she runs for President and gets the nomination, as it assures that the party she runs for will lose. Although a large majority of Repugnants think she is helping the party and did help McCain, that percentage of voters who identify with the Greedy Old Polluters is shrinking daily and quite a small percentage, and IMHO her ignorance and uncanny ability to diss English and speak Palinism can only help people working to fight climate change and pollution in general.